I have been so focused on essay 2 that for the first time, I completely forgot to do my blog entry :(. I'm really mad at myself for forgetting since I haven't missed any others. I forgot to put it on my whiteboard for homework and I only thought of it because I'm working on my essay right now and I was thinking about my blog and about to look at it and then I realized I should have made an entry for this morning. Dang it. Anyways, better late than never right? I will compensate by commenting on everyone blogs I am following instead of just two.
I am working out my essay right now... sitting in starbucks... listening to paramore. So far I have written my intro and I just worked out how to organize the rest of the essay. I am planning on first discussing West's argument of how blogs showed different social languages and such and then I'm going to incorporate evidence from my blog to show how I did the same thing and it allowed for deeper learning. Then I'm going to discuss my third article and also incorporate it with my blog which is really where my argument will be articulated, so I might end up switching the order. I really don't know, I'm just going to wait and see how it plays out as I write it. I'm struggling with getting my ideas out of my head and clearly articulated, but it's the good kind of struggle where I'm working through ideas vs having to come up with ideas. The hardest part is making this into an essay, because in my head my paper should be layed out like the articles we have been reading. So I'm having issues making all of my thoughts and different parts of my argument form a cohesive paper. That will probably be the biggest problem for me besides the actual argument, hah.
It sounds like you're progressing nicely with your essay. I wish I could say the same. It's probably best to just take your paper as it comes. I'm sure we'll be doing plenty of revising.
ReplyDeleteAw dont worry about missing that one blog. we all forget sometime or another, so dont worry about it. it sounds like your essay is coming along great! keep it up!
ReplyDeleteIf it makes you feel better about your late blog, I missed two already.
ReplyDeleteGreat start on your essay.
You don't need to compensate by writing more comments, just glad you used the blog to think through things. I was more interested in the fact that you remembered to blog because you were in the brainstorming process. ;)
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like the struggle is to get the ideas out of your head. When this happens to me, I just write it out freewrite style and then go back to organize later with a reverse outline. The other thing I do is talk through my ideas with a colleague/friend and then I pay attention to what popped to the surface and what seemed most coherent. Then I go home and write. I never seem to remember to record the conversation, which would help tremendously to refer to.
No kidding, if I have a recording of the conversation we had the other day after class I would have had a much easier time. But the work I've done on my paper since this blog entry yesterday has actually been very productive and I'm happy with the way it's turning out :). I think the problem was it's just so complex I need to finish writing everything out to be able to see the full idea and the big picture.
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